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Updated December 1, 2017 By Richard Thomas Rating: B Chicken Cock is one of the oldest brand names in Bourbon history, established before the Civil War in the county seat of none other than Bourbon County itself, Paris. Nowadays, only Hartfield and Co. hang their hat there and Chicken Cock is a sourced brand, relaunched in 2013 and owned by ...

Diageo has added to its Orphan Barrel line of very aged and ultra aged whiskies with an entry that reaches into new ground: Canada. The new release, dubbed Entrapment, is essentially a 25 Year Old Crown Royal, made and aged at the brand’s giant plant in Gimli, Manitoba. Entrapment was distilled in 1992 from a mashbill of 97% corn and ...

Bowmore, the oldest licensed distillery on Scotland’s isle of Islay, has announced the release of Bowmore 1966 50 Year Old, an ultra-aged single malt from a landmark year in Bowmore’s heritage. Only one cask of this remarkable spirit was set aside in 1966, the same year that Bowmore Single Malt Scotch was first officially bottled. Only 74 bottles of this ...

By Emma Briones Rating: C Flaming Pig is the brainchild of Irish entrepreneurs Joey Shore and Flor Prendergast. Under the name of Malone’s Whiskey Co., they’ve launched a whiskey, Flaming Pig Black Cask, and a whiskey liqueur, Flaming Pig Spiced Irish. Flaming Pig Black Cask is a small batch blend of single grain and single malt Irish whiskey aged from ...

By Richard Thomas In my book, a hallmark of an insufferable snob is insisting that only certain glasses (worse, just one type of glass) is suitable for drinking whisky. My stock response is “tell that to Jimmy Russell and Booker Noe, who used to drink their stuff out of Dixie cups.” I could just as easily point to the numerous ...